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Pedestrian killed in Mass. From Florida

Posted: 10/23/12 at 9:45 am
Tags: Granby   Florida   pedestrian     

GRANBY, Mass. (AP) -- Police say the woman struck and killed while walking along a Massachusetts street last weekend was a Florida resident visiting relatives.

Police identified the woman killed Sunday in the western Massachusetts town of Granby as 61-year-old Faith Schauer-Swift of Maitland, Fla.

Schauer-Swift was walking north along the southbound shoulder of a street at about 3:30 p.m. when she was struck by a vehicle driven by a 20-year-old Belchertown woman.

Schauer-Swift was pronounced dead at the scene.

The death remains under investigation and the driver has not been charged. She stayed at the scene after the impact.

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